Short Talk

A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of 1000 peso bills out of his wallet. He turns to the rich man and says to him, "I have an amazing talent: I know almost every song that has ever existed." The rich man aughs. The poor man says, "I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady’s name of your choice in it." The rich man laughs again and says, "Ok how about my daughter’s name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller." The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing?

Question # 2

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Question # 3

A man wanted to get into a members only club but because he couldn’t become a member, the man hid and watched as the guard at the door of the club house said a number to each member as they approached, the member would respond with a number of their own, if the member responded with the correct number they were let in, if they responed incorrectly they were thrown out. One member come up to the guard, the guard said twelve and the member responded with six and was let in. Another member came to the door, the guard said six and the member responded with three and was let in. Believing he had heard enough, the reject went up to the guard, the guard said ten, and the reject said five, but was not let in, what should the reject have said?

Question # 4

If a rooster lays an egg in the water, will the egg float or sink?

Question # 5

A man is trying to commit suicide. So he jumps off a building but lives, however the police didn’t arrest him. Why didn’t the police arrest him?

Question # 6

Nothing, Dumb and Nobody were sailing in a boat.

Suddenly Nobody falls into the water, Nothing told Dumb to call the police and what do you think Dumb said?

Question # 7

I’m Jack and I own a building: it has seven doors on the outside, each door is right in front of two stairs, each stair has 12 steps to the top of my building, and each step has 5 drawings on it. Now, how many stairs does the building have if each has 60 drawings?

Question # 8

After teaching his class all about roman numerals (X = 10, IX=9 and so on) the teacher asked his class to draw a single continuous line and turn IX into 6. The only stipulation the teacher made was that the pen could not be lifted from the paper until the line was complete.

Question # 9

If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?

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